§ 74. Authority of trustee in administering trust funds. 1. Subject to subdivisions two and three of this section, the trustee is authorized to determine the order and manner of payment of any trust claims and to apply any trust asset to any purpose of the trust.

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Terms Used In N.Y. Lien Law 74

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

2. The authority of the trustee provided in this section shall terminate with respect to any trust assets as to which an order for distribution is made as provided in section seventy-seven and before the making of an order for distribution may be terminated or limited by order of the court pursuant to subdivision three of section seventy-seven.

3. This section does not limit the effect of any proceeding or order therein by which jurisdiction of the trust assets, or any of them, is vested in a court or by which a particular application of any asset or of all trust assets is enforced or directed.

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